April 18, 2012 Media Matters’ targets revealed: business, wealth, Christianity
When David Brock applied for tax-exempt status for Media Matters for America, he told the IRS exactly who his group would be fighting against: businesses, wealthy Americans and conservative Christians.
“Media Matters for America (MMA) believes that news reporting and analysis by the American media, with its eye on profit margin and preservation of the status quo, has become biased,” read the group’s application, obtained by The Daily Caller, “It is common for news and commentary by the press to present viewpoints that tend to overly promote corporate interests, the rights of the wealthy, and a conservative, Christian-influenced ideology.”
Treasury Department documents — 88 pages that The Daily Caller obtained through a public records request to the IRS — reveal for the first time how the organization described its mission while applying for coveted 501(c)(3) non-profit status....
Vince Coglianese wrote: Conversely, a 2011 Gallup survey showed 60 percent of Americans saw bias in the media, with 47 percent of respondents saying the media are “too liberal.” Only 13 percent said the media are “too conservative.”
Those data have seen little change since Media Matters’ arrival in 2004, when 48 percent of those polled perceived liberal bias while just 15 percent perceived conservative bias.
an interesting tidbit from the article. I suppose if the likes of Jimmy Swaggart, TBN, Joel Olsteen and their ilk can get tax-exempt status, another anti-Christian group might as well get it also. Oh, on Islamphobia, Does Islam Promote Peace?.
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Paul Fountain | 1/30/2009
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Oh, on Islamphobia, 
